Originally with one track active and one platform, it operated for a little over 19 months, before closing on February 6, 2006, to be reconstructed for the LYNX Blue Line.

[2] The station officially reopened for service on Saturday, November 24, 2007, and as part of its opening celebration fares were not collected.

[4] The station served as the Blue Line's northern terminus until the extension to UNC Charlotte opened on March 16, 2018.

As part of the CATS Art in Transit program, 7th Street features several pieces intended to provide a better overall aesthetic for the station.

The works include bas-reliefs entitled Gingko by Alice Adams, drinking fountain basins designed to look like dogwoods, the North Carolina state flower, by Nancy Blum, river stone benches by Hoss Haley and finishes on the track fencing, shelter windscreens and column cladding featuring a leaf motif of species of tree found in the station by Shaun Cassidy.